Chuest CI losing Heerema Contract in November to Oceaneering

[Slick]

Well it seems that CI just couldn’t produce well enough to keep Heerema happy. I can’t say I am surprised though the only reason they got the contract in the first time was bidding under what it was worth. OII wasn’t about to get in a price war and it seems they made the right move. I just had some paperwork move across my desk preparing for the mobilization of many systems in November. We also had a visit from a couple of Heerema guy’s a week ago. I find this hard to be coincidence as this is when that contract is up again. The really bad news for CI is that will be over a hundred techs and with a company who has hired that many in just the last 6 months it could prove to be a brutal blow. If you look they are only hiring senior supervisors right now because they will have way to many techs and most supervisors will see the light and jump ship. I know for a FACT OII will not be hiring any traitors back. Daryl has made that very clear to the staff. So I am sure we will see an influx of techs looking for work this Christmas. I doubt this will ruin CI they still have their boats, but it won’t be good.

[James]

Interesting read, I assume you mean Chouest?

Shame to hear CI is losing the contract, competion is always a good thing, keeps a company on its toes….

Thanks for the news.

[Scott Beveridge]

Could be the entire loss was orchestrated to happen that way…. Stranger things have happened in the GOM!

[Spacer]

Orchestrated? Please explain.

[Scott Beveridge]

I mean that there are / were a lot of strings pulled here and there in the GOM to a different flavor of a company… Following so far??? Envelopes passed…. discounts for this and that… dinners…. flights, etc. The list could go on…. One’s imagination could soar….

[Marcus Roy]

Anyone who entertains this idea is just as retarded as the author himself. From reading this obviously Oceaneering can’t afford spell check, or just hires uneducated personnel. What this thread doesn’t state is the fact that Oceaneerings subs weren’t capable of completing the upcoming jobs, and that was the main determining factor in hiring CI in the first place. The fact that they brought up that Darryl wouldn’t hire traitors back in itself is comical. I would rather work at McDonalds than ever go back to OI making the pennies that they pay their employees. This sounds like a disgruntled OI employee who was turned down by CI for employment. Chouest is one of the largest and most wealthy companies out there today. Now hows this for a rumor….. Chouest is buying out OI…… (I mean anyone who knows anything about ROVS knows this isn’t true. Those poor mags would get sucked into our UHD’s thrusters)

[rovrave]

what you have reported here about O.I should be read in conjunction with another post,in another forum on this site, regarding their antics up in india

this is what i meant, when i replied in that forum….same old shit (as regards the O.I mentality and way of doing things. The O.I, M.O so to speak)

i really think that O.I worldwide need to reasess their whole ROV division and their human resources section as relates to ROV personnel. they are fading fast as an rov operator

It’s heartening to hear and read (hear on this site) that guys are finally waking up and voting with their feet. Maybe this is starting to have an effect and there may finally be some change. About time!

or maybe that rumour is true? maybe the will just give up on it all ,as they fast become irrelavant, and sell off the divison.

good posts by the way. this is the type of info that should be openly available to people , so they can decide who they work for.(how many have been caught out already, i was one of the suckers)

i’m sure a few clients get on this site as well. So they can see through the bullshit that some of these companies feed them (capabilities of vehicles, training schemes in place, qualifications and certification of their operators, attitude on safety and especially welfare / human resources policies as relates stated and actual)

[Scott Beveridge]

I was in and out of OI for 10 or 12 years and there were a few horror stories I could pass on to all and sundry….!!!! My favorite one about how OI management trying to deceive their client on one job…. Supv.: "Mr. XXX, the motor’s farqed on the vehicle and the spare I’ve been asking for and HASN’T arrived yet!!!""" WTF ya’ want me to do???", Ops. mgr: "Scam it mate, just farqin’ scam it!!!!" Any more, anybody??? Maybe a new thread is in order for this … How did OI deceive their clients through the ages???

[microfish]

Is somebody a traitor because he wants the best for his family? I was with Oceaneering for 7 years and they were my worst years in the ROV industry.
I am with C-I right now and I feel good, I am working for the HMC project and they are satisfied.
Nobody is forcing me to lie, I am not in a management position but the state of mind of whoever calls somebody a traitor in the free market for jumping ships is despicable.
By the way Darrell called me to work for him and I couldn’t stop my self from laughing at his offer! although he really didn’t mention he thought I was a traitor because I left OI years before or maybe he did but was not man enough to!

[Scott Beveridge]

Microfish,

The only way loyalty works is ONE WAY only – the company’s.

[David Stevens]

Sounds like OI is taking a beating just like Saipem America is. I heard the same BS from the big dogs at Saipem. "C-I is gonna fail and no traitors will be hired back" Well IF, and I repeat IF, Saipem ever gets some new contracts that they need people, I know damn well that they’ll hire me back before they hire some schmuck off the street or some OI halfwit. As far as Heerema goes. I say OI can have them. I’d rather work for the French than the Dutch. Remember that these are the same people responsible for the Slavery Triangle and Apartide. But I somehow doubt that they will transite out stuff all the way to Brazil, just to kick us off. If you’re going to start dodgy rumors, at least do some fact checking first.

[Scott Cooley]

WOW, Is it possible that CI could lose the Heerema contract so soon? I would have thought that CI would have been given the opportunity to screw up at least as badly as OI did even after YEARS of having the contract. I do know that CI has to clear with HMC everyone going to their vessels because of OI personnel that were NRB’d by HMC for fighting and other violations of policy. And since I work on one of the HMC vessels, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a few of the ex OI guys and I can see why OI doesn’t want them back!

[David Stevens]

I know that this is an old post, but I feel it necessary to add a comment today. It appears the Deepwater was misinformed, or just spreading disinformation and wishful thinking on O.I.’s behalf. Here it is, December and I am still on an HMC vessel with my sub in the water and getting paid. It sounded like sour grapes from the get go and now I feel quite vindicated. Par for the course from an O.I. guy. Give them enough time and a long enough hose and they’ll blow smoke up their own a♠♠. Further more, if CI leaves HMC, it will be because CI can make more money with the systems elsewhere. HMC is not going to make C-Innovation a world leader in the ROV industry, companies like BP will make us the benchmark that the industry strives for.

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